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Message-ID: <20100930061348.GY5665@dastard>
Date:	Thu, 30 Sep 2010 16:13:48 +1000
From:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/17] fs: icache lock inode hash

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 09:52:20PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:18:35 +1000 Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com> wrote:
> 
> >  DEFINE_SPINLOCK(inode_lock);
> >  DEFINE_SPINLOCK(sb_inode_list_lock);
> > +DEFINE_SPINLOCK(inode_hash_lock);
> 
> I assume these all go away later on.  If not, they'll probably all land
> in the same cacheline!

indeed, the hash lock goes away in this series, as does the
inode_lock. I'll check the other new locks don't land in the same
cacheline.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@...morbit.com
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